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Reparative

//ɹɪˈpɛəɹətɪv// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to or intended to repair.

    "reparative surgery"

  2. 2
    Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.

    "reparative justice"

Noun
  1. 1
    That which repairs. rare

    "[…] the Dukes fame did still remain more and more in obliquie among the masse of people, whose judgements are only reconciled with good successes, so as he saw plainly that he must abroad again to rectifie with his best endeavour under the publike service, his own reputation; Whereupon new preparatives were in hand, and partly reparatives of the former beaten at Sea:"

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